Preview: Oprah Visits America’s Most Unusual Town Oprah spends the day in Fairfield, Iowa—one of the safest, greenest and most unusual communities in America. It’s the last place you’d expect to find two huge golden domes built for the thousands of residents who rush there to meditate twice a day. The full episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter aired on Sunday, March 25, at 9/8c.
Welcome to TM Town Fairfield is a quiet community nestled among the cornfields of Iowa. It’s also the center of the transcendental movement in the United States. Many of the 9,000 residents who live here meditate every day, including the Winer family. Watch as the Winers reveal why they left an affluent suburb outside of Atlanta to move to Fairfield. Plus, find out how the architecture of homes in Fairfield can improve a homeowner’s happiness.
The Architecture of TM Town Many homes in Fairfield, Iowa, are built in a style of architecture inspired by nature. Take a tour of one family’s home and learn about the theory behind its layout.
Fairfield’s One-of-a-Kind School The Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment uses “consciousness-based education” to teach children from kindergarten to 12th grade everything from college prep to spiritual awakening. Watch as Oprah tours the school and shares a meditation session with some of the older students.
16 Principles of the Science of Creative Intelligence The children at the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa, are learning life lessons it took Oprah decades to learn. Learn the 16 principles of the Science of Creative Intelligence for yourself.
Rush Hour in Fairfield, Iowa Rush hour in Fairfield, Iowa, is unlike any other town in America. Twice a day, residents stop what they’re doing and head to two giant golden domes to meditate. Watch as Oprah meets with the town’s mayor and a founder of a nearby community to learn more about the practice of Transcendental Meditation and then tours the Bagambhrini Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge for women.
Oprah Meets Iowa’s Pandits Pandits are professional meditators who practice Transcendental Meditation for hours a day in the name of world peace. For two to three years, many of these men from India devote their lives to this practice in the cornfields of Iowa. On the day Oprah visits, nearly 800 are in residence. They’ve never allowed television cameras to film them—until now. Watch as Oprah gets an unprecedented look into the life of a pandit.
Three excerpts from the show are posted on The Transcendental Meditation Program website — www.tm.org/oprah — Excerpt one: Oprah’s take on TM, Excerpt Two: Why our family meditates, and Excerpt Three: From Guns to TM.
The show, America’s Most Unusual Town, on Oprah’s Next Chapter, will rebroadcast Sundays, April 8 at 7:00 pm ET/6 CT and April 15, at 6 pm ET/5 pm CT. Last minute schedule changes do happen and so this info is updated.
Oprah’s Next Chapter America’s Most Unusual Town
Oprah spends the day in Fairfield, Iowa – one of the safest, greenest, and most unusual communities in America. It’s the last place you’d expect to find two huge, golden domes built for the thousands of residents who rush there to meditate twice a day. Read more: http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/Oprahs-Next-Chapter-Americas-Most-Unusual-Town
For more on Oprah’s Next Chapter visit http://www.oprah.com/OprahsNextChapter. Find OWN on TV at http://www.oprah.com/FindOWN.
Here’s an article posted on the TM Blog about the preliminary results of the show: TM’s Popularity Surges After Oprah’s TV Show.
To find out more about Fairfield and neighboring Maharishi Vedic City, visit http://discoverfairfield.org.
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April 27, 2014 at 10:11 am |
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What an amazing town to reside in! I never knew that was a TM hub! If everyone in town meditates twice a day, it must be much easier to maintain a regular practice. Maybe I need to move there!!
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April 29, 2014 at 3:13 am |
Not everybody in Fairfield is a meditator, but around a third to a quarter are. If you’re interested in visiting and finding out more, check out this website for an upcoming course called Experience The Self from June 1-9. http://www.experiencetheself.org.
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May 7, 2014 at 1:52 am |
I will! Thank you for sharing with me 🙂 Namasté
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September 7, 2020 at 8:41 pm |
Lisa, it’s been a while. I just read your bio and noticed you graduated from UMASS-Amherst. I was there during the summer of 1971 to take a one-month course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of TM, the Transcendental Meditation technique. I also stayed for the First Symposium on the Science of Creative Intelligence, SCI, that followed. Many top scientists and thinkers spoke, including Buckminster Fuller. There were lively exchanges between Maharishi and the speakers, especially Bucky Fuller, which was inspiring. A press conference followed the next day with both of them. Many of us watched it. A video of it is posted on YouTube. It’s under a half-hour in Parts 1, 2, & 3: https://youtu.be/6z8u313eY_c | https://youtu.be/2hut9tL52aM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZdkT8JmQQ.
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[…] A few of the many media outlets that have visited Fairfield over the years to feature or rank us in their top lists are: US News and World Report, BuzzFeed, The Smithsonian, The Des Moines Register, The Iowan, William Shatner’s TV show Moving America Forward, and even Oprah, who brought her film crew to feature us in her Next Chapter on OWN. […]
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